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"Worries About Turkey Are 'Fact-Free Paranoia'

 Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek says

...In Turkey the popular ruling party, the AK—despite some background with political Islam—has proved to be the most open, modern and liberal political movement in Turkey's history. That extraordinary achievement may now be in peril because of the overreaction of Turkey's secular (and unelected) establishment.....

Mustafa Akyol in IHT: The real threat is secular fundamentalism

 

An innovative approach here from a friend:
Gurur Ertem in ON BELIEF:

Some Reflections Triggered by Springdance in the Light of Current Political Debates in Turkey

An older but notable post by Jon Worth: Secularism, the military, the EU and Abdullah Gul via Nosemonkey.

 

In the mean time,  France's blow to Turkey's hopes (By Patrick Seale) and Turkey uneasy over Sarkozy win, but hopes for pragmatism and an article in TESEV's bulletin: The French Presidential
Elections and Turkey.

 

Illustration by Nino Jose Heredia/Gulf News

 

 

 

 

Posted by erkan on May 8, 2007 10:12 AM |

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Posted by: Gurur | May 18, 2007 10:20 PM

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